NEW MUSEUM. SO YOU DISCUSS
IS ANTONIO ARE JUST A BOARD
MEMBER AND FRIENDS OF THE
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN
LATINO AND FOUNDER AND
MANAGING PRINCIPAL AND
MARIN DESIGN GOOD MORNING.
SO PLEASE GIVE US AN UPDATE ON
THE PROGRESS OF THE SIS
SMITHSONIAN
LATINO MUSEUM.
>> WELL FIRST, THANK YOU VERY
MUCH, I'M DELIGHTED TO BE HERE
WITH WE HAD THIS STATION A YEAR
AGO I WOULDN'T BE
AS JUBILANT AS HAPPY AS I AM
AFTER 3 DECADES OF TRYING AND
NOW ORGANIZATION TO FRIENDS OF
THE NATIONAL. YOU OF THE
AMERICAN LATINO ADVOCATING FOR
THIS MUSEUM ALONG WITH OUR
CONGRESSIONAL NATIONAL PARTNERS
WE WERE ABLE TO GET THIS A
CHIEF ON DECEMBER 27 TO 2020.
THE IS CHARGED WITH BEGINNING
THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTING IN
CREATING
THIS MUSEUM. THE FIRST STEP IS
THEY HAVE GOING TO THE
GOVERNMENT'S PROCESSED. THEY
HAVE SELECTED A BORDER DSS THE
INTERIM DIRECTOR SHE AND ARE IN
THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A
SITE.
>> SO DO YOU
ANTICIPATE CONGRESS PUSHING
BACK ON CONSTRUCTION IN DC'S
NATIONAL MALL NOW.
WELL I THINK
IT'S IN THE WAY UP TO GRAB SOME
TOLD US SETTLED.
>> I
>> FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL.
>> MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN
LATINO IS
TO ADVOCATE FOR THE BEST
LOCATION
TO BE RIGHT IN THE MALL RIGHT
IN THE NATIONAL MALL SHOULDER
TO SHOULDER WITH ALL THE
>> CONNICK AND CERTAINLY
RIGHT ACROSS THE NATIONAL
MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN
HISTORY AND CULTURE MUSEUM THAT
IS VERY IMPORTANT GOING TO BE
THE LOCATION THAT
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WILL BE THE
ADVOCATE FOR THE OTHER
IMPORTANT THING IS GOING TO
OBVIOUSLY THE FUNDS AND MAKE
SURE THAT THE
THAT THE APPROPRIATIONS IN
CONGRESS ARE APPROPRIATE.
>> YOU
>> AS ALL SMITHSONIAN
INSTITUTION'S HALF THE MONEY
COMES FROM CONGRESS AND THE
OTHER
HALF COMES FROM PRIVATE FUND
RAISING AND THAT'S WHERE WE
WILL BE
COMING IN TO HELP GUIDE AND
FUNDS TORTS A SMITHSONIAN WHO
WAS SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR
TAKING UP FROM. TAKING UP FROM
HERE ON TO
>> SO WHEN THE FUND RAISING IS
COMPLETE AND CONSTRUCTION IS
UNDERWAY. WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE
TO VISITORS TO SEE AT
THE MUSEUM.
>> WELL I'M NOT A CURATOR THE
PLAY TOO MUCH INTO
THAT BUT I AM A
LITTLE BIT OF A LITTLE BOY I
LOVED THE WEST I THINK THE
HISTORY
HERE OF THE AMERICAN WEST HAS
REALLY NOT BEEN DONE JUST A LOT
OF IT STARTS REALLY IN THE MID
19TH CENTURY WITH COWBOYS, AN
INDIAN TYPE THINGS AND
HOLLYWOOD. THE HISTORY GOES
BACK ANOTHER 300 YEARS TOO THE
BEGINNING AND MIDDLE OF THE
16TH CENTURY. AND THAT THAT
IS JUST THE THE INTRODUCTION OF
THE HORSE OF THE AMERICAN WEST
THE TRADING WITH THE NATIVE
AMERICANS WITH THE FIRST
EUROPEANS TO SETTLE THE OTHER
MIXTURE OF CULTURES THAT BECAME
THE WESTERN AND IT'S NOT
JUST THAT HOW ONE INDIAN ASPECT
OF IT. WESTERN HISTORY THAT'S
SOMEWHAT NEGLECTED AND AND
WHERE LATINOS ARE NOT.
>> BILLY
>> PORTRAYED IN THEIR SCHOOL
LEVEL AND CONTRIBUTION.
THERE'S A GENTLEMAN NAMED FOR
LISA, WHO WAS CO-FOUNDER SAYING
WAS TRADING COMPANY BORN IN
NEW ORLEANS WAS GIVEN A LAND
BY THE SPANISH TO GO TO ST.
LOUIS WHICH WERE SPANISH AT
THE TIME. THIS HIM AND
THAT LOT 26,000 MILES IN THE
NEWSROOM,
MISSISSIPPI RIVER OUTFITTED THE
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION
THERE ARE SPORTS IN THAT WORK
ARE STILL NAMED AFTER MEN WHILE